Melinda By Tila Tequil Character Analysis

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“Everyone has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what really is beautiful. If we were all the same it would be boring.” by Tila Tequila. Melinda is self conscious about how other people think of her. She thinks no one would like the person she really is. She hides her identity in her closet. No one knows about the closet but her. Melinda keeps herself locked away. Melinda’s identity can be shaped by the people the surround her and the personality she has.
People the surround Melinda is one factor that shapes her identity.”No Rachael, no Heather, not even a silly, geeky boy who would like the inside girl I think I am” (Anderson 111). She thinks no one would like the person she is in the inside. This shapes her identity

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